Do You Think What We Are Being Told Is True

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What is it that makes us think what we are being told is true? “Everybody thinks they know what’s right and wrong. But will things that seem moral today be deemed completely immoral later?” (David Edmonds), because of technological innovations everyday a new knowledge may be created, something someone never imagined can be a new knowledge tomorrow, or something someone strongly believed yesterday could be strongly denied today. Many theories are created now but in several hours it can be simply discarded. “How do we know whether we are using untrustworthy premises from the past to build and develop new knowledge?” All these questions apply to the quote “That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow.” According …show more content…

But almost all of us must sometimes wonder: Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead,” he said. “Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.” “Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” He said new theories “lead us to a new and very different picture of the universe and our place in it”. It is very interesting on how people nowadays believe on what an important and well-known scientists says, Furthermore, How do you know that what he said is true? How do we know that what Hawking said is a totally true theory? Science has been changing for centuries however it is not something abstract, and also how do you know whether what is written in a science or history book is still valuable today. For a better understanding, the two areas of knowledge I chose were ethic and …show more content…

When I say science I mean an abstract fact stated by important scientists. As I stated in the first paragraph, science also evolutes, and by this evolution, knowledge facts known centuries ago, is discarded today, the main exampled of science change are the evolution, and revolutionary. Philosophical view of change and identity got influenced by scientific view of change, however how could we believe in science now? As there were disagreements back then when the famous scientist Galileo Galilei stated that the world wasn’t the center of the world anymore, and everyone freak out with this new scientific proof, today any scientists can say that the creation of the universe wasn’t the Big Bang, and this already happened. According to the Association of Press almost half of the American doesn’t believe in the Big Bang Theory and that’s when the main question surges up, is the big bang theory, something that was believed for scientists and people worldwide decades ago, being discarded now? Theories for what we obtain in our knowledge are being constantly changing, and this is just how it works, new experiments are performed and a new knowledge could be confirmed or contradicted, or maybe experiments operated a long time ago could be denied. Right now a new thesis could be developing which then develops a hypothesis for experiments that could be confirmed and then a new scientific fact surges up! And this is just how the

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